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Partner blog post from Peter Cook, Director of Global Alliances, Stratus<\/p>\n
\u201cThe latest SQL Server technology delivers a robust infrastructure <\/i>to support business-critical applications <\/i>and to scale with growing business demands,\u201d said Claude Lorenson, director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft Corp. \u201cFor SQL Server users that also need the highest degree of hardware availability to complete their solution, the ftServer system from Stratus Technologies has a decade-long record of uptime performance that only a fault-tolerant server architecture can deliver.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Wow! Why would Microsoft say this about a server vendor? It seems more and more business critical SQL based applications are being deployed on Stratus \u201cfault tolerant\u201d servers, a technology most people associate with some bygone age of computing dinosaurs. What\u2019s going here? My name is Peter Cook, Director of Global Alliances from Stratus and I\u2019d like to share with you what\u2019s happening \u2013 and get your opinion.<\/p>\n
First, SQL Server 2008 is the fastest growing DB and is being used in more and more tier 1 applications (we all know that\u2026). Secondly, today\u2019s Stratus ftServers run standard Windows\u00a0 Server 2008 and are all based on industry standard cost effective Xeon Quad core technology. Over 10,000 are installed worldwide, most with SQL Server.<\/p>\n
Finally, it seems as money does matter. Combined with SQL 2008R2, users can get better platform availability spend 50% less<\/i> than other DB\u2019s that rely on availability alternatives requiring multiple servers, hugely expensive software licenses and high cost support. Must be another mega yacht is on order or maybe a world cup to the moon contest?<\/p>\n